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MFTA

65 Digital Banks Later : Here Is What Actually Makes or Breaks a Launch

Omar Mansur, Global Enterprise Lead and Managing Director APAC at Codebase Technologies and MFTA Corporate Member, joins Raghda Ibraheem having helped launch 65 digital...

88% of Banks Have Committed Budget to Digital Assets : Only 16% Are in Production

Stephen Richardson, Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Banking at Fireblocks and MFTA Corporate Member, joins Raghda Ibraheem as a striking gap defines the...

Saudi Arabia’s AI Factories: What Makes Them Different From Data Centres

Saudi Arabia is building what Nvidia calls one of the biggest infrastructure shifts since the rise of cloud computing, AI factories, with 500MW of...

What Sovereign Wealth Funds Actually Want, and Why Most Founders Get It Wrong

Gaurav Dhar, CEO and Founder of The WorxShop and Board Member of MFTA, joins Raghda Ibraheem having done what most founders only dream about,...

Inside the Evolution of Finance: How Central Banks Are Preparing for a Tokenized Economy

Musheer Ahmed, Founder of Finstep Asia and Hong Kong Ambassador for the MENA Fintech Association, joins Capital Markets as one of the founding team...

Every Bank Calls Itself Sustainable : Here Is How to Tell If It Actually Is

Dr. Jelena Janjusevic, Global Head of Accountancy, Economics and Finance Department Heriot-Watt University and MFTA member, joins Raghda Ibraheem with a clear and practical...

Who Controls the Future of Money : Banks, Big Tech, or Your AI Agent?

Ronit Ghose, Industry Chair of the Future of Finance & AI Group and MENA Fintech Association, joins Raghda Ibraheem with a sweeping view of...

Crypto Built the Infrastructure, Now Wall Street Is Moving In

Maxime Seiler, advisor and MFTA member, joins Johny Fernandez at an inflection point for institutional digital asset markets, the moment where what crypto built...

Your Next Purchase Might Not Be Made by You : The Rise of AI Agent Payments

Akshay Chopra, Payments Committee Co-Chair at the MENA Fintech Association and Managing Partner at 237 Ventures, joins Wall Street to Mena as Coinbase, Google,...

Fireblocks & MFTA’s Playbook for Getting Banks Live on Stablecoins in the UAE

Stablecoins facilitated $33 trillion in transactions globally last year, and the UAE is right at the centre of the story. John Hallahan, Head of...

Why Founders and Banks Always Leave the Same Meeting on Different Pages

Michael O'Loughlin, US Ambassador for the MENA Fintech Association and Managing Partner at Argonautic Global, returns to Wall Street to Mena to go deeper...

The IMF’s UAE Verdict Is In, and Global Capital Is Paying Attention

Nameer Khan, Chairman of the MENA Fintech Association, unpacks the significance of the IMF's verdict following its ten-day visit to the UAE, a verdict...